December 2010

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You may think every five- to eight-year-old you know wanted an iPod this year. Not these kids.

Caleb Stegall is set to become general councel for Governor Brownback when he takes office on January 10. Here is the announcement. No doubt his new responsibilities will leave less time for FPR, but we will continue to look forward to…

Mama, they took my Kodachrome away.

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Thank God Dad had that massive heart attack four years ago.

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Here is your opportunity to name the worst-ever occupant of the White House.

TAC reconsiders Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, delivered fifty years ago next month. Kauffman and yours truly participate in a fine symposium reflecting on the dangers of the “military-industrial complex.”

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We have, until this day, indulged in our individualistic reveries, imagining that we are always free to “light out for the Territory” and leave the ills of communal life behind us.

ISI sponsors an on-line discussion on the limits of liberty.

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In the ancient world, Christianity put an end to cremation, and for a century it was kept in check by Christian tradition.

While Peters is peddling his technophiliac vision below, I commend this ancient Catalonian tradition for your creche (and your garden), “the Caganer.”…

To save us all with gmail’s power when we had gone astray.

That Endless Enlightenment

by James Matthew Wilson on December 23, 2010 · 25 comments

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Stanley Fish

Academic leftists and conservative critics of academe are united in a fundamental proposition, says Stanley Fish. True enough, say I: education is endless and the world is a nauseating abyss.

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I would not have us die of consumption.

A splendid gift idea, especially for yourself.

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But then Dylan is 69, and old enough to remember when the people of his place looked askance at empire. There were giants in the earth in those days.

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From the mountaintop, the little people of this world appear very small indeed.